Grown in Tennessee
We're Dorothy and Dean. Two people with a day job, a big garden, and a canning season that keeps us busy from August through October. This isn't a side project — it's how we actually plan our year. We built it because nothing else did it right.
The people
Founder
Day job. Serious gardener. Tennessee, greenhouse, too many seed packets. She started Between the Frosts because she was tired of juggling a spreadsheet, a notebook, and three different apps just to plan one growing season. She handles the vision, the copy, and the greenhouse seedlings.
Co-builder
Partner in the garden, partner in the build. If Dorothy's the one who knows what a gardener actually needs, Dean's the one who builds it. He handles the code, the data model, and making sure the companion planting warnings actually make sense.
Also here
Red husky. Compost inspector.
Dexter showed up opinionated and has stayed that way. He's the one who figures out every time I open the seed room door before I've done anything — apparently the squeak of that hinge means something to him. He is red, he is dramatic, and he has very strong feelings about whether you're moving fast enough in the garden. He patrols the compost pile like it owes him something.
Husky/shepherd mix. 2015–2025.
Darla was black and white with some tan — shepherd build, husky face, and a disposition that reads as suspicious until proven otherwise. She took the perimeter seriously. She was there for the early-morning seed starts before the app existed, before the Seed Room had a name, sitting in the greenhouse doorway deciding whether the cold was worth it. Usually she decided it wasn't, but she stayed anyway.
The gap
Every gardening app we tried did one thing well and stopped there. Plant a tomato, fine. But the full cycle — seed to transplant, bed planning to companion planting, harvest to the canning calendar — nobody connected those dots. We needed it all in one place, written for people who actually put food up, not just people who grow it.
Between the Frosts is the planner we wished existed. Built by the people eating from it.
The tools
Your season, mapped out. Visual grid, companion planting warnings, frost-date-aware scheduling. Plan in February, work in July.
Open the planner →Pick the right seeds. Don't guess. Track every tray from sowing to transplant — what to do this week, what moves next week.
Open the Seed Room →From harvest to pantry. No mystery. Map your expected yield to canning and freezing windows — know what hits the counter in August before it does.
Open the Preservation Planner →Your windowsill is a garden too. 35+ care guides for herbs, microgreens, and sprouts — grow food year-round with just a sunny window.
Explore Indoor Living →Follow along. We're not a content farm — just two people in Tennessee growing things.
Everything we grow, can, and get wrong ends up on Instagram. That's where you'll find the real version of what's on this app.
